ACTIVITY AREAS

Capital programme

In April 2006 the JISC launched the Capital programme to fund developments in e-learning; e-infrastructure; virtual research environments; users and innovation; and repositories and preservation.

The bulk of the £81 million will be spent over three years on enhancing the network infrastructure (SuperJANET 5) and digitising key resources for the academic community.

Three calls in April 2006, September 2006 and April 2007 include calls for e-learning projects (allocated £11.36 million) to achieve the following:

pilot new e-learning technologies to support lifelong learners, including support for HE courses in FE, widening participation, work-based learning, flexible delivery and personalised learning experiences.

build capacity, knowledge and skills in the use of e-learning to support lifelong learning through institutional and collaborative cross sector projects; work with subject communities, and knowledge exchange activities.

develop, pilot and implement technical models that support the flexible, affordable and pedagogically diverse implementation of e-learning.

provide guidance to practitioners, institutions and subject communities on the use of e-learning, in partnership with the Higher Education Academy.

gain knowledge to inform future JISC e-learning developments, through engagement with the ICT industry and through a collaborative e-learning research programme.

The Capital work is being integrated with the core e-Learning Programme in a number of themed areas.

Features

Leap2A: Developing Portfolio Interoperability
With the launch of a new web site for Leap2A http://www.leapspecs.org/2A/ we look back over the last five years of development of the Leap2A portfolio specification and talk to some of the project teams about what has been achieved so far.

16 May, 2011

VLEs at the heart of curriculum innovation
This article looks at how VLEs are being used to support curriculum innovation in four of the recent Transformation Curriculum Delivery through Technology projects, and discusses why, despite all their shortcomings, VLEs are still are the heart of curriculum development.

CETIS10:Never Waste a Good Crisis
Resources and Reflections from the seventh JISC CETIS conference, Never Waste a Crisis, Innovation and Technology in Institutions, held in Nottingham this week.

18 Nov, 2010

Sustaining curriculum change
Unlike the political turmoil at Westminster there was an atmosphere of consensus at the Curriculum Delivery Programme meeting in Birmingham last week. The consensus emerging was around how best to sustain and embed project outputs after funding has ended. Here are my reflections from the day.